Run Quick EMO ALBUMS; Here I’ll POLL, You VOTED

I enjoyed that unplugged.

MTV Unplugged was imo the absolute worst thing he ever did and to this day i find it borderline unlistenable

havent listened to it since then (2003?) not really sure i care to visit again to solidify any opinion on it.

the unplugged is great to watch and hard to listen to. my cats love it for some reason

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51770z4BfbL.jpg
69 [TIE]. Pinegrove - Cardinal
143 points, 5 votes
---------------------------------
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61PZECZ9pBL.jpg
69 [TIE]. Fall Out Boy - From Under the Cork Tree
143 points, 5 votes

this tie alone is begging for its own poll

From Under the Cork Tree way too low, was my no. 6, know the later albums are more liked but hard to describe how massive this was when it hit my school

i was never a huge form under the cork tree fan (tho i've heard it many times bc significant other is from chicago) - i always felt their sound was a little generic and underbaked until infinity on high, but i was relistening to this during the poll and def the blueprint is there from the getgo. the band benefited substantially imo from shifting its emphasis from pete wentz to the true heart + soul of the band patrick stump. maybe it's just me but it does seem like the "frontman" did switch at some pt??

This poll is rolling out very nicely. I'm the guy who voted for Lifetime, Against Me and Refused, as said above it's all so interrelated that it doesn't matter to me.

from under the cork tree is actually imo at exactly the right place (lol 69 nice). it's def the least good fob album (even stump agrees)

i mean, least good fob album not counting evening out with your girlfriend which no one does

the band benefited substantially imo from shifting its emphasis from pete wentz to the true heart + soul of the band patrick stump. maybe it's just me but it does seem like the "frontman" did switch at some pt??

i mean, pete is 100 percent the heart of the band/the "frontman" throughout their entire career, but infinity is when stump starts singing the shit out of the songs

also we didn't nom some of the more recent albums but i want to note that they're all good and i was rocking out to american beauty / american psycho on a car trip recently. save rock and roll also not nominated and also great. when i'm falling asleep at the wheel they are the band most consistently able to wake me up.

this poll is making it very clear that i left emo behind in the 20th century

btw describing very emergency as a "big beautiful dumb golden retriever of an album" = perfecto

Wait, lol, Will, did you take improv lessons from N1ck?? Those guys went to my high school, a couple years behind me.

― My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Tuesday, March 7, 2017 8:16 AM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yup! I guess we went to the same high school then! (MHS?)

Yup (more like 03-04 but still) xps

it's def the least good fob album (even stump agrees)

Dear god they made an album worse than American Beauty/American Psycho?

btw describing very emergency as a "big beautiful dumb golden retriever of an album" = perfecto

you can use that for the book, just attribute it in a footnote, thx

i was never a huge form under the cork tree fan (tho i've heard it many times bc significant other is from chicago) - i always felt their sound was a little generic and underbaked until infinity on high, but i was relistening to this during the poll and def the blueprint is there from the getgo. the band benefited substantially imo from shifting its emphasis from pete wentz to the true heart + soul of the band patrick stump. maybe it's just me but it does seem like the "frontman" did switch at some pt??

― Mordy, Tuesday, March 7, 2017 1:08 PM (eleven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I def didn't love fall out boy at the time, didn't like them until infinity as well

Yup! I guess we went to the same high school then! (MHS?)

Yeah, I graduated (from OAC/Gr 13!) in 1997.

I also haven't liked anything since Folie a Deux

Too funny. I was the last year of OAC, in 2003. Gn1ck was smack in the middle between us.

btw, essential visual companion thread:

Lonely guy just thinking baout things

maybe it's just me but it does seem like the "frontman" did switch at some pt??

Feel like this was a very smart move on the band's part. Pete Wentz is so indelibly associated with the '00s that seeing him feels like receiving an email from MySpace. Patrick Stump is a much more versatile canvas to project an image on

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51GqzN4-ajL.jpg
67 [TIE]. Knapsack - This Conversation is Ending Starting Right Now
145 points, 4 votes
---------------------------------
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51RQhOQfofL.jpg
67 [TIE]. Copeland – Beneath Medicine Tree
145 points, 4 votes

two great records

Knapsack I've loved for 15 years now, Copeland I only just discovered in the voting thread. Voted for both.

voted for both of these. copeland too low but happy to see it place at all.

and we're RATIONAL
but you never know

Outside of Against Me!, have any other women made this list yet?

i was thinking about that during the noms, not a lot showed up there. Paramore obv will place.

hoping for julien baker

Have no #1 votes shown up yet?

gonna be kinda upsetting if out of 100 albums Laura Jane Grace and Hayley Williams are the only women represented

fwiw I voted for dear nora :/

From Under the Cork tree is the only FOB I ever go back to on the reg

Maybe Circle Takes The Square will show up? xp

Too funny. I was the last year of OAC, in 2003. Gn1ck was smack in the middle between us.

Lots of punk bands when I was there. Fun fact: Popular singer-songwriter-cum-cafe owner Kathleen Edwards was also a MHS alum, in my year. She was cool.

gonna be kinda upsetting if out of 100 albums Laura Jane Grace and Hayley Williams are the only women represented

― Evan R, Tuesday, March 7, 2017 1:53 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

pffft, no way. i guess discount probably won't sneak in but i'm expecting jejune, the anniversary, rainer maria (maybe)

Folie à Deux is def my FOB keeper but the hooks from "Sugar" and "A Little Less Sixteen Candles..." still get in my head sometimes.

i fucking love kathleen edwards xp

I never bought this Against Me album but I have really enjoyed it whenever I listened. Hits my classic indie rock buttons.

Folie à Deux is def my FOB keeper but the hooks from "Sugar" and "A Little Less Sixteen Candles..." still get in my head sometimes.

― My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Tuesday, March 7, 2017 1:57 PM (fifteen seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

my impression that stump dislikes cork tree is from a very old interview he did with absolutepunk (?) right before infinity where he said he liked approx three songs on the album (i'm guessing those two and "dance dance"). i like about six myself

Apparently I sat in Kathleen's desk in History class, or so Ms. Johnson told me.

it's impossible to confirm this bc absolutepunk is long gone xp

i love that i am just talking about my high school in the emo thread, so unrelated and yet so wholly appropriate

I love this Ottawa high school talk. I was last year of OAC at Canterbury.

I like "XO" and uhhh

count me in on the Kathleen Edwards lovefest

pffft, no way. i guess discount probably won't sneak in but i'm expecting jejune, the anniversary, rainer maria (maybe)

I'd be shocked if Rainer Maria makes the cut. They seem like the quintessential "I thought you were gonna vote for them" band

ditto the Kathleen Edwards love